Cub Hill

A man whose nude body was found in the back yard of a home in the 2900 block of North Wind Road in Cub Hill on Saturday morning was identified yesterday by county police as 31-year-old from the Jacksonville area of northern Baltimore County. But the cause of death for Christopher Agrow of the 2900 block of York Manor Road was unknown yesterday. An autopsy was being performed. The death was classified as suspicious, said police spokesman Bill Toohey. Police were called to the neighborhood about 3 a.m. Saturday when residents reported a man banging on doors and windows.

Harry William Kluth Jr., a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. engineer who played an instrumental role in the design and operation of the L Blast Furnace at Sparrows Point, died April 16 of heart failure at the Glen Meadows retirement community in Glen Arm. The longtime Cub Hill resident was 83. The son of a head teller for Union Trust Co. and a homemaker was born in Baltimore and raised in the city's Pimlico neighborhood. After graduating from Polytechnic Institute in 1946, he began his career at Bethlehem Steel while earning an engineering degree at night from the Johns Hopkins University in 1961.

After a year of negotiations, Baltimore County and state officials have worked out an agreement to buy a controversial city-owned park in Cub Hill for $1.9 million, according to a legislator involved in the talks.Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell, who is helping to orchestrate the deal, said he anticipates state approval to buy Graham Memorial Park off Harford Road in a few months -- a proposal that has sent ripples of relief through the community."That's great to hear," said Jana Leonard of Parkville, a park visitor for 20 years.

Developers in some parts of northeastern Baltimore County would no longer be able to squeeze new properties onto existing lots without a new road, under a bill introduced by three County Council members Monday. The bill, set for a vote next month, would ban new "panhandle lots" in Parkville, Cub Hill and Carney, a move meant to control density. It was introduced by David Marks, a Perry Hall Republican; Cathy Bevins, a Middle River Democrat; and Todd Huff, a Lutherville Republican.

By Charles Belfoure and Charles Belfoure,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | March 8, 1998

Even before any people arrived, Cub Hill was a family-oriented community.In 1685, the surveyor of William Burgess' land noted the large numbers of bear cubs roaming the wooded hills, and the area was so named.Today, Cub Hill remains a family neighborhood. "It's a 'Father Knows Best' kind of neighborhood," said Ron Walker, a veteran real estate agent who has sold many houses in the area for Century 21-Horizon Realty. "Solid middle class with kids," he added.Cub Hill, considered part of the Parkville-Carney corridor in northeast Baltimore County, is a residential neighborhood of single-family homes ranging in price from $115,000 to $200,000.

By Robert A. Erlandson and Robert A. Erlandson,SUN STAFF | January 24, 1998

Call it Salvator and Hortensia's great adventure -- and, for one anxious night, their son's worst nightmare.Late Thursday afternoon, Octavio Norman reported to Baltimore County police that his elderly parents, Salvator and Hortensia Norman, had failed to return to their Cub Hill home from a customary late-morning, one-mile walk to North Plaza Mall.The family notified police about 6 p.m., and officers searched along Joppa Road, including malls and businesses, without success. Mr. Norman, 85, speaks English but suffers from dementia, and his 75-year-old wife does not speak English.

A former counselor at a treatment facility for juvenile sex offenders pleaded guilty Wednesday to having sex with a 17-year-old boy who was a resident there. Tyra M. Greenfield, 26, was sentenced to three years of incarceration, with all but one year suspended, a term she will serve in the Baltimore County Detention Center. Circuit Judge Kathleen Cox stipulated that when she is released, Greenfield is to be on probation for three years. Greenfield, who was charged with sexual abuse of a minor and harboring a fleeing felon after her arrest in September, was employed at the time by the New Directions Program, based at the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School in Cub Hill and the only secure treatment facility in Maryland for juvenile sex offenders.

State troopers were searching last night for two teen-age boys who escaped earlier in the day from the Charles H. Hickey School for juvenile offenders. The boys, one a 16-year-old from Baltimore and the other age 15 from northern Harford County, escaped from an unfenced area of the school in Cub Hill at 5:15 p.m. yesterday, said Trooper Chuck Hill. The boys were walking in a line with other juveniles as they returned to their building from a dining hall when they ran across the school grounds and a horse farm toward Cub Hill Road, Hill said.

On April 3, 2006, MICHAEL ERNEST KARAS; beloved husband of Annette Karas (nee Theodorou); devoted father of Evonne Toutsis Kaniecki and her husband Stephen and Denise Karas; dear brother of Joyce Melonas and Evelyn and James Karas; dear grandfather of Annette, Stephen and Leah. Aslo survived by many nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home Inc., 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26A) on Thursday, 7 to 9 and Friday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9. Mr. Karas will lie-in-state in St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, on Saturday from 10 until 10:30 A.M. at which time a Funeral Service will be held.

Baltimore County Councilman David Marks, a Perry Hall Republican, now holds regular office hours at the Seven Oaks Senior Center every first and third Friday of the month. The senior center hours, which began Nov. 18, allow residents to meet with him on issues of their choosing. Councilman Marks is available from 1 to 3 p.m. every first and third Friday of the month at the center. The Seven Oaks Senior Center is located at 9210 Seven Courts Drive, in Perry Hall. Marks expressed his thanks to the senior center for allowing him to meet constituents at the facility.

Councilman David Marks has stood with the citizens of Carney in refusing to introduce a planned unit development (PUD) for the former Bill Bateman property located north of the Harford and Northwind roads intersection in Cub Hill. This is the last property south of the URDL (Urban Rural Demarction Line). This decision was an important one. Marks told me about the PUD and the meeting of the Northwind Townhomes Home Owners Association (HOA) and I attended the meeting with permission of HOA. The PUD proposed by Kirby as presented to the HOA board was to build 160 apartments on the site.

Tim Sherman of Cub Hill writes: I fish at several locations in lower Gunpowder Falls State Park. It appears that anti-erosion measures have been taken to curb rain runoff near the parking area at Harford Road. I understand and applaud the effort. However, the conservation effort has made parking very dangerous. The width of the parking lot is so narrow that if you turn to back in, you have to go across two travel lanes. If you pull in, you have to back out into travel lanes. Anyone with a large SUV or extend cab pickup can forget about parking there.

Jane W. Courtney, a former newspaper columnist, accomplished needlepoint worker and volunteer, died Thursday of a stroke at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 76. The daughter of a salesman and a seamstress, the former Jane Weismuller was born and raised in Livingston, N.J. She was a graduate of Livingston High School. After her marriage to James M. Courtney Jr., a chemical engineer, in 1951, the couple lived in Newark, and later moved to Mendham, N.J. Mrs. Courtney studied writing at the County College of Morris in Morristown, N.J., and at New York University's New School.

While I totally respect Chris Bolgiano's right to decide "not to be" ("An overpopulated, over-consuming world needs people willing not to procreate", May 9) and truly admire her global motivation, as for me, I would rather see (and the world would surely need) a child created and nurtured by someone so intelligent and talented as she is, than 10 children born to others who are not. Marge Mitchell, Cub Hill

A former counselor at a treatment facility for juvenile sex offenders pleaded guilty Wednesday to having sex with a 17-year-old boy who was a resident there. Tyra M. Greenfield, 26, was sentenced to three years of incarceration, with all but one year suspended, a term she will serve in the Baltimore County Detention Center. Circuit Judge Kathleen Cox stipulated that when she is released, Greenfield is to be on probation for three years. Greenfield, who was charged with sexual abuse of a minor and harboring a fleeing felon after her arrest in September, was employed at the time by the New Directions Program, based at the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School in Cub Hill and the only secure treatment facility in Maryland for juvenile sex offenders.

On March 21, 2003, DESPINA D. SAKELL (Sakellarakos); beloved wife of the late William Sakell; devoted mother of Pete and Virginia Sakell; dear grandmother of Nicholas and William Sakell; dear sister of Nick and Pete Dimakos and Dimitra Trougakos. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the Schimunek Funeral Home, Inc., 9705 Belair Road (Perry Hall), on Sunday from 7 to 9 P.M. and Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P. M with a Trisagion service on Monday at 7:30 P.M. Mrs. Sakell will lie in state in St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church (Cub Hill)